KR20150093093A - System and method for providing Coupon service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing a coupon service. According to an embodiment of the present invention the system for providing a coupon service comprises: an issuer server requesting the issuing of a coupon including activation conditions to a coupon management server and determining whether the activation conditions of the coupon are satisfied or not; a coupon management server generating and transmitting a coupon including an inactive personal identification number (PIN) to a user terminal based on the request of the issuer server to transmit an activating signal which converts the inactive PIN into an active PIN to the user terminal when the satisfaction of the activation conditions is confirmed; and a customer terminal transmitting the PIN of the coupon submitted by the user terminal to the coupon management server to request the approval of the use of the coupon.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a coupon service system,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coupon service system and a coupon service method, and more particularly, to a coupon service system and coupon service method capable of granting a coupon usage right according to whether a user's activation condition is achieved.

As the function of the portable terminal and its application range are expanded, the user can collect various information through the portable terminal and can perform various tasks. For example, it is possible to carry out activities from existing PCs, such as running various applications or accessing the Internet from outside, and online purchase and reservation activities can be carried out on the move.

However, in the case of performing marketing using a coupon, conventionally, a coupon is produced by using a branch such as paper, and then a coupon is transmitted by mail or the like. Therefore, in order to make a coupon, It took time and money. Particularly, from the viewpoint of the issuer who wants to utilize the coupon for marketing, it takes more time to print and send the coupon in addition to the cost of the coupon, and it takes much time to transmit the coupon, There was a lot of complaints in the stores.

Recently, a technique for replacing a coupon for a tributary has been actively discussed.

Published Patent Application No. 2013-0138637 (Dec. 19, 2013)

The present application aims to provide a coupon service system and a coupon service method that can grant a coupon usage right according to whether or not a user's activation condition is achieved.

A coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention relates to a coupon service system including an issuer server, a coupon management server, and a customer terminal, and is a system for requesting a coupon management server to issue a coupon including an activation condition, An issuer server for determining whether or not the activation condition of the server is achieved; And transmits an activation signal for converting the inactive PIN to an active PIN to the user terminal when the activation condition is confirmed, A coupon management server for transmitting the coupon to the terminal; And a client terminal for transmitting a PIN of a coupon presented by the user terminal to the coupon management server and requesting approval of use of the coupon.

Here, the issuer server may input, to the coupon management server, coupon information including a coupon sending person, coupon type, coupon validity period, and activation condition.

Here, the issuer server may check the credit card usage amount of the user corresponding to the user terminal, and may transmit a condition achievement signal to the coupon management server if the credit card usage amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount.

Here, the issuer server can extract a coupon sending destination to receive the coupon from the customer information previously stored in the issuer server or provided through communication from another server.

Here, the issuer server can extract the coupon sending destination using the customer information of the customer who has agreed to receive the advertisement.

Here, the coupon management server may generate a coupon including a bar code or a QR code corresponding to the inactive PIN, and transmit the coupon to the user terminal.

Here, the coupon management server may generate coupons including a plurality of activation conditions, and may change contents of the activated coupons according to the number of achievement of the activation conditions.

Here, the coupon management server may check whether the PIN corresponds to the active PIN when the coupon management terminal transmits the coupon PIN, and may transmit a use approval signal to the coupon terminal if the coupon management terminal corresponds to the activation PIN.

Here, the coupon management server may record the coupon transmission status, the activation status, and the usage approval status for each user terminal, and generate statistics about the coupon.

Here, the coupon management server may calculate the achievement ratio of the activation condition using the information received from the issuer server, and may transmit the achievement ratio to the user terminal.

A coupon service method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a coupon transmission step of generating a coupon containing an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) at the request of the issuer server and transmitting the generated coupon to the user terminal; An activating condition discriminating step of discriminating whether or not the issuer server achieves an activation condition for the coupon and transmitting a condition attaining signal to the coupon management server when the activating condition is achieved; An activation signal transmission step of, upon receipt of the condition completion signal, transmitting, to the user terminal, an activation signal for the coupon management server to convert an inactive PIN of the coupon into an activation PIN; And a coupon activation step in which the user terminal converts the inactive PIN to an active PIN using the activation signal.

Here, the coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that the issuer server transmits a coupon to a coupon recipient who is to be issued coupons by using the customer information previously stored in the issuer server or provided through communication from another server And a coupon requesting step of requesting the coupon management server to generate a coupon for the coupon sendee.

Here, the coupon request step may extract the coupon sending destination using the customer information of the customer who has agreed to receive the advertisement.

Further, in the coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the user terminal presents the coupon to the customer terminal, the customer terminal sends the coupon's PIN to the coupon management server to request approval of use Approval request phase; And a use approval step of confirming whether or not the coupon management server activates the received PIN and transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal if the PIN corresponds to the active PIN.

A coupon service method in a coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a coupon transmission step of generating a coupon at the request of the issuer server and transmitting the generated coupon to the user terminal; A coupon activation step of transmitting, to the coupon management server, an activation signal for activating the coupon to the user terminal when the coupon management server receives from the issuer server an activation condition for the coupon; And a use approval step of confirming whether or not the coupon is activated when the coupon management server receives a use approval request for the coupon from the coupon terminal and transmitting a use approval signal to the coupon terminal.

Here, the coupon transmitting step may include: a coupon generating step of causing the coupon management server to generate the coupon using the coupon sending person, coupon type, coupon validity period, and activation condition received from the issuer server; And a transmitting step of the coupon management server transmitting the coupon by matching the coupon with the user terminal corresponding to the coupon sending destination person and recording whether coupon is transmitted to each user terminal.

Here, the coupon generation process may include a PIN (Personal Identification Number) in an inactive state in the coupon.

Here, the coupon generation process may generate a coupon including a bar code or a QR code (Quick Response code) corresponding to the inactive PIN, and transmit the generated coupon to the user terminal.

Here, if the coupon includes a plurality of activation conditions, the activation of the coupon may be performed according to the number of activation conditions.

Here, the coupon activation step may use the activation signal to change the inactive PIN included in the coupon to the activated PIN.

Here, the coupon activation step may record the activation of the coupon when the coupon management server changes the PIN to the activated state.

Here, the use approval step may include checking whether the coupon management server corresponds to the activated PIN when the customer terminal transmits the coupon PIN, and if the coupon management server corresponds to the activated PIN, A usage approval signal can be transmitted.

Here, the use approval step may record the use of the coupon when the coupon management server transmits the use approval signal.

Here, the coupon service method in the coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include an activation condition notification step in which the coupon management server transmits the achievement ratio of the activation condition to the user terminal.

Here, the coupon management service method in the coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that the coupon management server generates data on the number of coupons to be transmitted, whether or not the coupons are activated, .

A coupon service method in a coupon management server according to another embodiment of the present invention includes: a coupon transmission step of generating a coupon at a request of a publisher server and transmitting the coupon to a user terminal; When the coupon management server receives from the issuer server the achievement of the activation condition for the coupon, the coupon management server records the accomplishment of the activation condition of the coupon in a predetermined table table; And a use approval step of receiving a use approval request for the coupon from a customer terminal, the coupon management server checking the table table and transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal if the activation condition is recorded in the table, . ≪ / RTI >

Here, the activation of the coupon may transmit a notification message informing activation of the coupon to the user terminal when the activation condition is input.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a coupon service method comprising: a coupon providing step of generating a coupon including an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) at a request of a publisher server and supplying the coupon to a predetermined issuing medium; Issuing a coupon to a user terminal connected to the issuing medium by the issuing medium, and providing the issuer server with the user information of the user terminal having the coupon issued by the issuing medium or the user terminal; Determining whether an activation condition for the issued coupon is achieved using the user information, and transmitting a condition completion signal to the coupon management server when the activation condition is satisfied; An activation signal receiving step of receiving the activation signal from the issuance medium when the coupon management server receives the condition fulfillment signal and transmits an activation signal to the issuance medium; And a coupon activation step in which the user terminal converts the inactive PIN into an active PIN using the activation signal.

Here, the coupon service method may include: an approval request step of, when the user terminal presents the coupon to the coupon management terminal, transmitting the coupon PIN to the coupon management server to request approval of use; And a use approval step of confirming whether or not the coupon management server activates the received PIN and transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal if the PIN corresponds to the active PIN.

Here, the issuing medium may operate at least one of a web page, a messenger program, and a mobile application.

Here, in the coupon providing step, the coupon management server may supply coupons of different kinds according to the type of the issuing medium.

Here, in the issuing of the coupon, the issuing medium may check the user terminal that has issued the coupon so as to prevent the duplicate payment of the coupon.

Here, the issuing of the coupon may prevent a plurality of issuing media from sharing the user information of the user terminal that has received the coupon so that the user terminal receives the coupon repeatedly from different issuing media.

Here, the issuing medium may transmit the coupon issued by the first user terminal to the second user terminal at the request of the first user terminal.

Here, the coupon issue step may be such that a first user terminal transmits the coupon to a second user terminal, and the first user terminal transmits user information of the second user terminal to the issuer server.

The method of providing a coupon in an issuing medium according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving from a coupon management server a coupon that includes an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number); Issuing the coupon to the user terminal connected to the issuing medium and providing the user information of the user terminal to the issuer server for determining whether the activation condition for the coupon is satisfied; And transmitting the activation signal to the user terminal when the issuing medium receives the activation signal for the coupon.

A coupon system according to another embodiment of the present invention is a coupon service system including an issuer server, a coupon management server, an issuing medium, and a customer terminal, and is a system for requesting a coupon management server to generate a coupon including an activation condition, An issuer server for determining whether or not the activation condition of the coupon is achieved; A coupon that includes an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) in response to a request from the issuer server, and transmits an activation signal for converting the inactive PIN to an active PIN to the user terminal when the activation condition is confirmed Management server; An issuing medium for issuing the coupon received from the coupon management server to the user terminal; And a client terminal for transmitting an activation PIN of a coupon presented by the user terminal to the coupon management server and requesting approval of use of the coupon.

In addition, the means for solving the above-mentioned problems are not all enumerating the features of the present invention. The various features of the present invention and the advantages and effects thereof will be more fully understood by reference to the following specific embodiments.

According to the coupon service system and the coupon service method according to an embodiment of the present invention, since the coupon can be transmitted on-line using wired or wireless communication, the cost and time required for issuing the coupon can be saved. In addition, since the usage right for the coupon is granted only when the predetermined activation condition is achieved, the user can be guided to achieve the activation condition. That is, it is possible to increase advertising and marketing effects using coupons.

According to the coupon service system and coupon service method according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide coupons to various customers in addition to existing customers because coupons can be provided through various issuing media.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a timing chart showing the operation of the coupon service system according to one embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a coupon service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a coupon service method in a coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a block diagram illustrating a coupon service system according to another embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a coupon service method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in order that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. In the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. In the drawings, like reference numerals are used throughout the drawings.

In addition, in the entire specification, when a part is referred to as being 'connected' to another part, it may be referred to as 'indirectly connected' not only with 'directly connected' . Also, to "include" an element means that it may include other elements, rather than excluding other elements, unless specifically stated otherwise.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a timing diagram showing an operation of a coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 and 2, a coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a publisher server 10, a coupon management server 20, a customer terminal 30 and a user terminal 40 have.

Hereinafter, a coupon service system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG.

The issuer server 10 can request the coupon management server 20 to issue a coupon including the activation condition and can determine whether or not the activation condition of the coupon is attained after the coupon is issued.

The issuer server 10 may be a company operated by a company that obtains an advertisement effect by using a coupon or a company operated by a coupon issuing agency, Coupons can be issued. Here, the issuer server 10 may include the predetermined activation condition in the coupon, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the advertisement through the coupon. In detail, the coupon including the activation condition may be provided to the user terminal 40 in a deactivated state, and the deactivated coupon can not be used until the activation condition is satisfied. Accordingly, the user corresponding to the user terminal 40 may perform an action to satisfy the activation condition in order to receive the benefit by the coupon, whereby the issuer server 10 obtains the advertisement effect have. That is, the issuer server 10 can induce the user to perform a specific action using the coupon including the activation condition. For example, the issuer server 10 may be a server operated by a credit card company, and the coupon may correspond to a voucher, such as a voucher, provided by a credit card company to a subscriber for subscriber attraction and the like. Here, a discount coupon for a specific commodity or service may be provided first, thereby inducing membership of the credit card company. However, the benefit of the discount voucher may be provided only when the subscriber satisfies a specific activation condition such as giving credit card usage results of a predetermined amount (for example, 3 million won per year) or more. That is, the subscriber who is a member of the credit card company can more actively use the credit card to receive the benefit of the discount voucher. This is because the advertisement effect that the issuer server 10 wants to obtain by using the coupon Marketing effectiveness. 2, the issuer server 10 can set the activation condition and transmit it to the coupon management server 20, and the coupon management server 20 can use the activation condition So as to generate a coupon including the activation condition.

In order to generate the coupon, the issuer server 10 may input, to the coupon management server 20, coupon information including coupon sendee, coupon type, coupon validity period, and the like. That is, in order to enhance the advertisement effect, the coupon person to provide the coupon can be set, and the coupon type can be selected to select the benefit or the like to be provided by the coupon. Specifically, the issuer server 10 can set the coupon sendee, coupon type, validity period, and the like using internally stored customer information or customer information provided through communication with a server of a third party. For example, in a case where the issuer server 10 is a credit card company and "20 to 30 males" is selected as a main marketing target, it is determined from the customer information using the credit card as " The customer can be extracted and the type of the coupon can be set as the "foreign famous football club game ticket" or the "vehicle goods discount ticket" which is expected to have a high advertising and marketing effect to the "20th to 30th males" . According to the embodiment, the issuer server 10 can be requested to issue a coupon from a third party such as a bank or a communication service provider. In this case, after receiving the customer information from the third party, the coupon- Can be extracted. Here, the customer information provided by the third party is related to the customer who has previously agreed to receive the advertisement, and may not include the customer information of the customer who does not consent to the advertisement reception.

Also, the issuer server 10 may set the expiration date of the coupon to satisfy the activation condition within a predetermined expiration period, and if the activation condition is not satisfied within the expiration period, the coupon's benefit is automatically It can be expired.

In addition, it is possible to set a plurality of activation conditions for one coupon, to provide benefits of different coupons according to the achievement of each activation condition, or to vary the benefits according to the number of activation conditions. Here, the issuer server 10 may provide the coupon information to the coupon management server 20 through wired or wireless communication, and the coupon information transmission of the issuer server 10 may be provided to the coupon management server 20 ) As a coupon creation request.

Meanwhile, the issuer server 10 can determine whether or not the activation condition for the coupon is achieved. As described above, in the case of a credit card company, the credit card usage record of the user can be set as the active condition. In this case, the credit card company can internally check the user's credit card usage record. That is, the user terminal 40, the customer terminal 30, the coupon management server 20, or the like can not determine whether or not the activation condition is achieved. However, in the issuer server 10 operated by the credit card company, It is possible to confirm whether the achievement is achieved. Therefore, the issuer server 10 can confirm whether or not the condition is achieved internally as shown in FIG. 2, and then transmit the confirmation result to the coupon management server 20. Here, when the activation condition is achieved, the condition fulfillment signal can be transmitted to the coupon management server 20. [ Whether or not the activation condition is achieved can be confirmed directly by the issuer server 10, but in the case where the issuer server 10 is a coupon issuing company, a separate database or a server confirms whether or not the activation condition is achieved To the issuer server 10 is also possible. In addition, the publisher server 10 does not mean a single physical server, but may be a name including a plurality of servers or databases.

The coupon management server 20 can generate coupons at the request of the issuer server 10. 2, the coupon management server 20 generates the coupon using the coupon type, coupon validity period, activation condition, and the like included in the coupon information transmitted from the issuer server 10 . Here, when the coupon contains an activation condition, it is necessary to keep the coupon in an inactive state until the activation condition is satisfied. Accordingly, the coupon management server 20 can include an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) in the coupon, thereby indicating that the coupon is in an inactive state. Here, the PIN corresponds to an identification number for distinguishing each coupon from each other, and a PIN corresponding to an inactive PIN may be set in advance among the PINs. That is, it is possible to check whether the coupon is in the inactive state or in the active state by using the PIN of the coupon. In particular, the coupon management server 20 may display the PIN in the form of a bar code or a QR code (Quick Response Code), and may include the bar code or the QR code in the coupon. That is, the coupon management server 20 can generate coupons including the inactive PIN in a manner including a bar code or a QR code corresponding to the inactive PIN. In addition, the coupon management server 20 may generate coupons including a plurality of activation conditions. In this case, the contents of the coupons, such as the coupon type and coupon validity period, . Further, the coupon may be generated by changing the content of the coupon according to the kind of the activation condition to be achieved.

When the coupon generation is completed, the coupon management server 20 can transmit the generated coupon to the user terminal 40 as shown in Fig. The user terminal 40 may be a PDA, a notebook, a smart phone, a tablet PC, a computer, or the like, and may be a mobile device, particularly a mobile device. Therefore, the coupon management server 20 can transmit the coupon to a user via a short message service (SMS), a long message service (LMS), a multi-media message service (MMS) A push message of an application installed in the mobile terminal 40, and the like.

Thereafter, when the achievement of the activation condition is confirmed, the coupon management server 20 can transmit an activation signal to the user terminal 40 as shown in Fig. As described above, whether or not the activation condition is achieved can be confirmed by the issuer server 10, and when the activation condition is satisfied, the issuer server 10 can transmit a condition completion signal to the coupon management server 20. Accordingly, when the condition completion signal is input, the coupon management server 20 can determine that the activation condition is satisfied and transmit the activation signal to the user terminal 40. [ The activation signal is to convert an inactive coupon into an active state and convert the inactive PIN of the coupon into an active PIN. That is, the inactive PIN indicating that the coupon corresponds to the deactivated state can be converted into the active PIN so that the user terminal 40 can use the coupon. However, the coupon management server 20 determines whether or not the coupon management server 20 has received the condition-fulfillment signal from the user terminal 40 corresponding to each user to which the condition- Signal can be transmitted.

In addition, the coupon management server 20 can provide the degree of achievement of the activation condition for each user terminal 40, thereby inducing the user to achieve the activation condition. Specifically, the coupon management server 20 can calculate the achievement rate of the activation condition using the information transmitted from the issuer server 10, and can transmit the achievement rate to the user terminal 40. [ For example, if a credit card company A provides a coupon for a specific product on the condition that the annual credit card usage result is activated, and the subscriber B completes the credit card usage record of 2.4 million won by October, the coupon management server 20) can transmit a message such as "achievement rate 80%" to the subscriber. In this case, the subscriber B who received the message can be stimulated to fill the remaining 600,000 won credit card usage history, so that the subscriber B can induce the subscriber B to achieve the activation condition of 3,000,000 won per year through the message.

When the coupon is activated, as shown in FIG. 2, the user can present the coupon contained in the user terminal 40 to the customer terminal 30 and request the use of the coupon. In this case, the customer terminal 30 can send an approval request for the coupon to the coupon management server 20. [ That is, the customer terminal 30 can extract the PIN from the coupon and transmit it to the coupon management server 20, and the coupon management server 20 can check whether the PIN corresponds to the active PIN. The coupon management server 20 may include an algorithm for distinguishing between an active PIN and an inactive PIN, or a database in which each active PIN and an inactive PIN are stored, so that it is possible to check whether the active PIN corresponds to the active PIN. At this time, if it is confirmed that the PIN corresponds to the active PIN, the coupon management server 20 can approve use of the coupon by transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal 30.

In addition, the coupon management server 20 may include a database for managing the coupon, and the coupon management server 20 records in the database whether or not the coupon is transmitted, activated, , And generate statistics for the coupon. That is, by using the coupon management server 20, secondary data such as statistics can be generated and analyzed. Therefore, the coupon management server 20 can be usefully used in designing a coupon transfer destination, benefit degree, activation condition, and the like.

The customer terminal 30 may be a point-of-sale (POS) terminal used in a restaurant or a store providing goods or services, or may be a smart phone, a tablet PC, a notebook computer, Can be utilized. A customer such as a restaurant or a store where the customer terminal 30 is located may establish an association with an issuer corresponding to the issuer server 10 in advance, The benefits corresponding to the coupon can be provided. Accordingly, the customer terminal 30 can request the user to present a coupon, and can confirm whether or not the coupon provided through the user terminal 40 corresponds to the activated coupon. That is, the customer terminal 30 can transmit the PIN of the coupon presented by the user terminal 40 to the coupon management server 20, and can request approval of use of the coupon. As described above, since the PIN can be displayed by a bar code or a QR code, the customer terminal 30 can scan the bar code or QR code using a bar code reader or the like. At this time, the PIN may be transmitted from the customer terminal 30 to the coupon management server 20 through the scan. The coupon management server 20 can confirm whether or not the PIN is activated. If it is the activated coupon, the coupon management server 20 can transmit a usage approval to the customer terminal 30. The customer corresponding to the customer terminal 30 that has received the use approval may provide the user corresponding to the user terminal 40 with the benefit corresponding to the coupon.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a coupon service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, a coupon service method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a coupon transmission step S110, an activation condition determination step S120, an activation signal transmission step S130, a coupon activation step S140, Request step S150 and use approval step S160.

Hereinafter, a coupon service method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In the coupon transmitting step (S110), the coupon management server can generate a coupon containing the inactive PIN and transmit it to the user terminal at the request of the issuer server. As described above, the issuer server may be a server operated by an issuer who wants to obtain an advertisement effect by using a coupon or a company that issues a coupon, and the issuer server transmits coupon information necessary for creating coupons to the coupon management And transmit the coupon to the server. Here, the coupon information may include a coupon type, an expiration date, a person to whom coupons are to be sent, and the activation condition of the coupon may also be included. That is, although not shown, the issuer server may request the coupon management server to issue a coupon by performing the coupon request step before the coupon transmission step (S110). Specifically, in the coupon requesting step, the issuer server may extract the coupon sendee to be issued the coupon using the customer information previously stored in the issuer server or communicated from another server, and the coupon management server And may request coupon creation for the coupon sending destination person. For example, if the issuer server is a credit card company and "20s to 30s" is selected as the main marketing target, customers who are "20s to 30s" are extracted from customer information using their credit cards And can set the type of the coupon as the "foreign famous football club game ticket" or the "vehicle goods discount ticket", which is expected to have a high advertising and marketing effect for the "20th to 30th males". Further, according to the embodiment, the issuer server may be requested to issue a coupon from a third party such as a bank or a communication carrier. In this case, after receiving the customer information from the third party, the coupon- can do. Here, the customer information provided by the third party is related to the customer who has previously agreed to receive the advertisement, and may not include the customer information of the customer who does not consent to the advertisement reception.

Thereafter, the coupon management server can generate a coupon by setting the coupon type, the expiration date, the coupon sendee, and the like. In particular, the coupon can include an inactive PIN to satisfy the activation condition. Since the PIN corresponds to the identification number for distinguishing each coupon, it is possible to distinguish the activated state and the inactive state of the coupon by using the PIN. That is, in the case of the coupon including the activation condition, the coupon management server must keep the inactive state until the activation condition is satisfied, so that the coupon management server includes the inactive PIN in the coupon, and indicates that the coupon is in the inactive state can do. Here, the user terminal may be a PDA, a notebook, a smart phone, a tablet PC, a computer, etc., and the coupon management server may transmit the coupon to a Short Message Service (SMS), a Long Message Service (LMS) ), e-mail, wired / wireless web sending, push message of an application installed in the user terminal, and the like to the user terminal.

Here, the user corresponding to the user terminal needs to activate the coupon in order to use the coupon, and the activation condition must be satisfied in order to activate the coupon. For example, when the annual usage record of the credit card is 3,000,000 won, the user needs to satisfy the activation condition using a credit card, and whether or not the activation condition is accomplished is confirmed by the server of the credit card company . At this time, the server of the credit card company may correspond to the issuer server. That is, after the coupon is transmitted, the issuer server can determine whether or not the activation condition for the coupon is achieved through the activation condition determination step (S120). If the activation condition is satisfied, May inform the coupon management server of the achievement of the activation condition by transmitting a condition completion signal to the coupon management server.

The coupon management server receiving the condition completion signal can transmit an activation signal to the user terminal (S130), and the user terminal can convert the inactive PIN into the activation PIN using the activation signal (S140). Here, since the inactive PIN is converted into the active PIN by the activation signal, the coupon corresponds to the activated state, and the user can use the coupon. That is, when the user terminal presents the coupon to the coupon management terminal, the customer terminal can transmit the coupon PIN to the coupon management server through the approval request step (S150) and request the approval of use. For example, the user may present a barcode displayed on the user terminal, and the client terminal may scan the barcode to extract the PIN included in the coupon and transmit the PIN to the coupon management server. Thereafter, in the use approval step (S160), the coupon management server can confirm whether or not the received PIN is activated. If the PIN corresponds to the active PIN, the coupon management server can transmit a use approval signal to the client terminal. The coupon management server may include an algorithm for distinguishing between the active PIN and the inactive PIN, or a database in which the active PIN and the inactive PIN are stored, so that it is possible to check whether the active PIN corresponds to the active PIN. Thereafter, when the customer terminal receives the use approval signal, the customer corresponding to the customer terminal can provide a benefit corresponding to the coupon, and the coupon management server can record the use of the coupon.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a coupon service method in a coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, a coupon service method in a coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a coupon transmission step (S210), a coupon activation step (S220), and a use approval step (S230).

Hereinafter, a coupon service method in the coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In the coupon transmission step (S210), the coupon management server can generate a coupon at the request of the issuer server and transmit it to the user terminal. The issuer server may be a server operated by a publisher operated by an issuer who wishes to obtain an advertisement effect using a coupon or a server operated by a company that issues coupons, and the issuer server transmits coupon information necessary for generating a coupon to the coupon management And transmit the coupon to the server. Specifically, the coupon transmission step S210 may include a coupon generation process and a transmission process (not shown).

The coupon creation process can generate the coupon using the coupon sending person, the coupon type, the coupon validity period, and the activation condition included in the coupon information inputted from the coupon server by the coupon management server. That is, in order to enhance the advertisement effect of the issuer, a person to whom the coupon is to be provided may be specified (for example, a woman in her twenties), and the kind of benefit provided by the coupon may be varied according to the coupon type It is possible to set the validity period so that the coupon is automatically expired if the activation condition of the coupon is not satisfied or the coupon is not used within a predetermined expiration period. In particular, in order to indicate whether or not the activation condition of the coupon has been achieved, the coupon may include an inactive PIN in the coupon. As described above, since the PIN corresponds to the identification number for distinguishing each coupon, it is possible to check whether the coupon is activated or deactivated by checking the PIN of the coupon. Since it is necessary to deactivate the coupon when generating the coupon, the coupon can be generated including the inactive PIN. At this time, in the coupon generation process, the inactive PIN may be displayed as a bar code or a QR code (Quick Response code), and the bar code or QR code may be included in the coupon.

In the transmission process, the coupon management server may match the coupon with the user terminal corresponding to the coupon sending destination, and may transmit the coupon to the matching user terminals. As described above, since the coupon sending destination can be set in the coupon, the coupon can be matched with the coupon sending destination and transmitted. For example, when the user terminal is a mobile communication terminal, each coupon can be matched with the telephone number of the coupon sending person, and the coupon can be transmitted using each telephone number. Thereafter, the coupon management server may record whether or not a coupon is transmitted to each user terminal.

In the coupon activation step S220, when the coupon management server receives the activation condition for the coupon from the issuer server, the coupon management server may transmit an activation signal for activating the coupon to the user terminal. As described above, the issuer server can confirm whether or not the activation condition of the coupon is achieved. If the activation condition of the coupon is satisfied, the issuer server can transmit the condition completion signal to the coupon management server. In this case, the coupon management server may transmit an activation signal to the user terminal to activate the coupon. Specifically, the activation signal may activate the coupon by changing the PIN in the inactive state included in the coupon to the activated PIN. When the coupon is activated, the coupon management server records activation of the coupon can do.

In addition, the coupon may include a plurality of activation conditions. In this case, the content of the activated coupon may be different according to the number of the activation conditions or the activation condition to be achieved. For example, when one activating condition is met, a 20% discount coupon is provided. When two activating conditions are met, a gift item is paid in addition to the 20% discount coupon. When the conditions are met, the contents of the coupon may be changed by paying the Q commodity.

In the use approval step S230, when the coupon management server receives the use approval request for the coupon from the client terminal, the coupon management server confirms whether the coupon is activated and transmits a use approval signal to the client terminal. If the coupon is activated through the coupon activation step S220, the user can request the use of the coupon by presenting the coupon to the client terminal. Here, the customer terminal may correspond to a POS terminal, a smart phone, a tablet PC, a computer, and the like, which are used in a restaurant, a store, or an online shopping mall that provides goods or services. Accordingly, the customer terminal can extract the PIN of the coupon by scanning a barcode included in the coupon presented by the user terminal or receiving a specific number sequence corresponding to the PIN, To the coupon management server. In this case, the coupon management server can determine whether the PIN is activated or not, and can transmit the determination result to the customer terminal. Specifically, the coupon management server may include an algorithm for distinguishing the active PIN from the inactive PIN, or a database in which the active PIN and the inactive PIN are stored, and it is possible to determine whether the PIN is activated by using the database. That is, if the coupon management server corresponds to the activation PIN, the coupon management server may transmit the use approval signal to provide a benefit corresponding to the coupon. If the coupon is inactive, the coupon management server may indicate that the activation condition has not yet been achieved can do. Here, when the use approval signal is transmitted, the coupon management server can record the use of the coupon.

In addition, the coupon service method in the coupon management server according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include an activation condition notification step and a management step (not shown).

In the activation condition notification step, the coupon management server can transmit the achievement ratio of the activation condition to the user terminal. The activating condition notifying step may be performed between the coupon transmitting step (S210) and the coupon activating step (S220), and by providing the degree of achievement of the activation condition to the user terminal having received the coupon, Can be induced to achieve the activation condition. Specifically, the coupon management server can receive the information from the issuer server, calculate the achievement ratio of the activation condition, and transmit the achievement ratio to the user terminal. For example, if a credit card company A provides a discount coupon for a specific product on the condition that the annual credit card usage result is activated, and the subscriber B completes the credit card usage record of 2.4 million won by October, the coupon management server And "Achievement rate 80" to the subscriber. In this case, the subscriber B receiving the message can be stimulated to fill the remaining 600,000 won credit card usage history, and it is possible to induce the subscriber B to achieve the activation condition of 3,000,000 won per year through the message.

In the management step, the coupon management server may generate data on the number of coupons transmitted, whether the coupons are activated, and whether the coupons are used, and provide statistics. That is, the coupon management server may include a database for managing the coupon, and the coupon management server records in the database whether or not the coupon is transmitted, activated and approved for use, Lt; / RTI > Here, since it is possible to generate and analyze secondary data such as the statistics, it can be usefully used in designing a coupon sending destination, benefit degree, activation condition, and the like.

The coupon service method in the coupon management server according to another embodiment of the present invention may include a coupon transmission step, a coupon activation step and a use approval step (not shown).

In the coupon transfer step, the coupon management server can generate a coupon at the request of the issuer server and transmit the coupon to the user terminal. The issuer server can transmit coupon information or the like necessary for generating the coupon to the coupon management server, and the coupon management server can generate the coupon according to the coupon information.

In the coupon activation step, the coupon management server can receive from the issuer server the achievement of the activation condition for the coupon. In this case, the coupon management server can record the achievement of the activation condition of the coupon in the predetermined table table . Therefore, the coupon management server can manage whether or not the coupon is activated within the coupon management server, without transmitting a separate activation signal or the like to the user terminal. However, if the activation condition is inputted, it is possible to transmit a notification message informing activation of the coupon to the user terminal, thereby inducing the user to use the coupon.

In the use approval step, the coupon management server can confirm the table table when receiving a use approval request for the coupon from the client terminal. That is, if the achievement of the activation condition is recorded in the table, the use approval signal is transmitted to the client terminal, and if the achievement of the activation condition is not recorded in the table, it can be indicated that the activation condition is not achieved.

5 is a block diagram illustrating a coupon service system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5, a coupon service system according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a publisher server 10, a coupon management server 20, a customer terminal 30, a user terminal 40 and a publication medium 50 can do.

Hereinafter, a coupon service system according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The issuer server 10 can request the coupon management server 20 to generate a coupon including the activation condition and can determine whether or not the activation condition of the coupon is attained after the coupon is issued.

In order to generate the coupon, the issuer server 10 may input coupon information including coupon type, coupon validity period, and the like to the coupon management server 20, and transmits the coupon to the user terminal 40 The issuing medium 50 can be selected. The issuing medium 50 is a means for providing a user with a community service, a messenger service, or the like in an online or mobile environment, and can operate a web page, a messenger program, a mobile application, and the like. However, since the issuer server 10 may be different from the issuance medium 50 in that the issuer 50 may be different from the issuer 50 because the sex, age, The type of coupon to be provided to each issuing medium 50 can be selected in consideration of the characteristics. For example, the issuing medium 50 may include a soccer community web page mainly accessed by men in their twenties and thirties, and a child care shopping mall to which 30 or more women are mainly connected. In this case, The shopping mall 10 may provide discount coupons for soccer related goods to the soccer related community web page and discount coupons for the amount of use of the female exclusive credit card at the shopping mall for child care products.

On the other hand, when the issuance of the coupon is completed, the issuer server 10 can determine whether or not the activation condition for the coupon is achieved. As described above, in the case of a credit card company, the credit card usage record of the user can be set as the active condition. In this case, the credit card company can internally check the user's credit card usage record. Accordingly, the issuer server 10 can internally confirm whether the activation condition is achieved or not, and then transmit the confirmation result to the coupon management server 20.

However, when issuing the coupon in the issuing medium 50 as in the present embodiment, information on the user terminal 40 on which the coupon is issued may not be stored in the issuer server 10. Therefore, the issuer server 10 needs to receive user information from the user terminal 40 or the issuing medium 50 or the like in order to determine whether or not the activation condition of the coupon is achieved. Specifically, the user terminal 40 directly provides the user information to the issuer server 10, or the user information input by the user terminal 40 when subscribing to the issuing medium 50, ) To the issuer server (10). The issuer server 10 extracts information on the user's credit card usage record based on the user information, and transmits the coupon information to the coupon Can be determined.

As described above, the issuer server 10 can set the coupon sendee, the coupon type, the validity period, and the like by using internally stored customer information or customer information provided through communication with a server of a third party . Herein, the customer information may include an indication as to whether or not the customer has received the advertisement, and may be selected as the coupon sending destination only to the customer who has accepted the advertisement.

The coupon management server 20 can generate coupons at the request of the issuer server 10. That is, the coupon management server 20 generates coupons by using the coupon information included in the coupon information transmitted from the issuer server 10, the valid period of the coupon, the activation condition, the type of the issuing medium 50, can do. In particular, the coupon management server 20 may include an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) in the coupon to indicate that the coupon is in an inactive state. Here, the PIN may be displayed in the form of a bar code or a QR code (Quick Response Code).

When the coupon generation is completed, the coupon management server 20 can supply the generated coupon to the issuing medium 50 designated by the issuer server 10. [ Thereafter, the user can access the issuing medium 50 using the user terminal 40, and can receive a messenger service, a social network service (SNS) service, etc. from the issuing medium 50. At this time, the coupon can be provided from the issuing medium 50 in such a manner that the user accesses a specific page of the SNS service, receives a specific message from the messenger service, or the like. Therefore, in the case of providing the coupon using the issuing medium 50, the range of the user who can receive the coupon can be widened. For example, when a coupon is provided directly by a credit card company, the coupon can be provided only to a customer who has issued the credit card. However, when using the issuing medium 50 such as SNS or instant messenger, It is possible to provide a coupon to various users other than the customer. That is, by using the issuing medium 50, it is possible to issue coupons to various users who access the issuing medium 50, not limited to the users stored in the customer DB of the issuer server 10

Here, the user terminal 40 connected to the issuing medium 50 may include a PDA, a notebook, a smart phone, a tablet PC, a computer, and the like, in particular, a mobile device that can be moved. Accordingly, the issuing medium 50 can transmit the coupon to a user via a short message service (SMS), a long message service (LMS), a multi-media message service (MMS) A push message, a banner, a pop-up window, etc. of an application installed in the mobile terminal 40.

Thereafter, when it is confirmed that the activation condition is satisfied, the coupon management server 20 can transmit an activation signal to the issuing medium 50, and the issuing medium 50 can transmit the activation signal to the user terminal 40 . Alternatively, it is also possible that the coupon management server 20 transmits the activation signal directly to the user terminal 40. [ As described above, whether or not the activation condition is achieved can be confirmed by the issuer server 10, and when the activation condition is satisfied, the issuer server 10 can transmit a condition achievement signal to the coupon management server 20. Therefore, when the condition completion signal is input, the coupon management server 20 can determine that the activation condition is satisfied and transmit the activation signal. The activation signal is to convert an inactive coupon into an active state and convert the inactive PIN of the coupon into an active PIN. That is, the inactive PIN indicating that the coupon corresponds to the deactivated state can be converted into the active PIN so that the user terminal 40 can use the coupon.

Here, since the coupon is provided through the issuing medium 50, the issuer server 10 may not store user information about the user terminal 40 that issued the coupon. In this case, the issuer server 10 May not be able to determine whether the condition of each user terminal 40 is achieved. Accordingly, the issuing medium 50 or the user terminal 40 having issued the coupon can transmit the user information of the user terminal 40 to the issuer server 10. The coupon management server 20 may transmit the user information to the issuer server 10 after the user terminal 40 first transmits the user information to the coupon management server 20 Do. For example, when the user terminal 40 joins the issuing medium 50, user information may be stored in the issuing medium 50, and the issuing medium 50 may receive the coupon And may provide the user information of the user terminal 40 to the issuer server 10. Alternatively, when the coupon is issued to the user terminal 40, the coupon may request the user terminal 40 to input user information, and the user information input to the coupon may be transmitted to the issuer server 10, It is also possible to directly transmit the data

Meanwhile, when the coupon is activated, the user can present the coupon contained in the user terminal 40 to the customer terminal 30 and request the use of the coupon. In this case, the customer terminal 30 can send an approval request for the coupon to the coupon management server 20. [ That is, the customer terminal 30 can extract the PIN from the coupon and transmit it to the coupon management server 20, and the coupon management server 20 can check whether the PIN corresponds to the active PIN. The coupon management server 20 may include an algorithm for distinguishing between an active PIN and an inactive PIN, or a database in which each active PIN and an inactive PIN are stored, so that it is possible to check whether the active PIN corresponds to the active PIN. At this time, if it is confirmed that the PIN corresponds to the active PIN, the coupon management server 20 can approve use of the coupon by transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal 30.

The customer terminal 30 may be a point-of-sale (POS) terminal used in a restaurant or a shop providing goods or services, or may be a smart phone, a tablet PC, a notebook computer, Can be utilized. Since the client terminal 30 has been described above, a detailed description will be omitted here.

In addition, the issuing medium 50 may identify the user terminal 40 that has issued the coupon so as to prevent the user terminal 40 from receiving the coupon over another issuing medium 50. 5, there may be a plurality of issuing media 50 that issue coupons, and the user terminals 40 can be individually connected to the respective issuing media 50, so that each issuing medium 50 50), it is possible to receive the same coupon in duplicate. However, according to the embodiment, it may be possible to prevent the duplicate payment of the coupon. In this case, for example, the plurality of issuing media 50 share the user information of the user terminal 40 that has issued the coupon, or the like, to the user terminal 40 that has already received the coupon, It may not be allowed.

Also, according to the embodiment, it is possible to transmit the coupon paid by the user terminal 40 to another user terminal. That is, the first user terminal directly transmits the coupon to another second user terminal using a text message or a messenger program, or the issuing medium 50 transmits the coupon transmission between the first user terminal and the second user terminal It can be mediated. That is, it is also possible to allow coupon transmission between the user terminals 40 in order to increase coupon delivery and provide coupons to a wider variety of user terminals 40. [

6 is a flowchart illustrating a coupon service method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, a coupon service method according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a coupon supply step S310, a coupon issue step S320, an activation condition determination step S330, an activation signal reception step S340, Step S350, an approval request step S360, and a use approval step S370.

Hereinafter, a coupon service method according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In the coupon supply step S310, the coupon management server may generate a coupon containing an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) at the request of the issuer server, and supply the coupon to the predetermined issuing medium. The issuer server can provide the coupon management server with coupon information necessary for generating the coupon such as the coupon type and the validity period of the coupon, and the coupon management server can generate the coupon using the coupon information. In particular, the issuer server can specify in advance the issuance medium to which the coupon management server supplies the coupon. The issuing medium may be a medium for providing a community service, a messenger service, and an SMS service in an online or mobile environment, and may operate a web page, a messenger program, a mobile application, and the like for providing the service. However, the characteristics such as the sex, age, and inclination of the user connected to each issuing medium may be different. Therefore, the issuer server can select the issuance medium to supply the coupons according to the type and characteristics of the coupons, and can supply different kinds of coupons according to the characteristics or types of the issuance media.

Meanwhile, according to the embodiment, the coupon request step may be performed before the coupon supply step S310. That is, in the coupon request step, the issuer server can extract the coupon-sending object to be issued with the coupon, using the customer information previously stored in the issuer server or communicated from another server, It is possible to request a coupon creation for the coupon sendee. In particular, the customer information may be related to the customer who has previously agreed to receive the advertisement, and may not include the customer information of the customer who does not consent to receiving the advertisement. Since the coupon request step has been described above, a detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

In the coupon issue step S320, the issuing medium may issue a coupon to the user terminal accessing the issuing medium, and the issuing medium or the user terminal may send the coupon to the issuer server . Here, since the coupon is provided using the issuing medium, the user can positively confirm the type and benefit of the coupon provided by each issuing medium, can select the desired coupon using the user terminal, issue the coupon You can get coupons by request. Therefore, unlike the conventional one-sided coupon providing method, it is possible to induce the active coupon search and issuance request of the user, so that advertisement and marketing effect using the coupon can be enhanced.

However, as described above, when the coupon is issued on the issuance medium, the information on the user terminal that issued the coupon may not be stored in the issuer server. Accordingly, in order to determine whether or not the activation condition of the coupon is attained, user information must be provided from a user terminal or an issuing medium. For this purpose, in the coupon issue step S320, the user terminal directly transmits the user information Or the issuing medium 50 may provide the inputted user information while the user terminal 40 subscribes to the issuing medium 50. [ Here, the user information may include the user's name, address, contact information, resident registration number, and the like.

In addition, in the issuing step of the coupon (S320), the issuing medium can prevent duplication of the coupon by checking the user information of the user terminal that has issued the coupon. In particular, when a plurality of issuing media It is possible to share the user information of the terminal with each other to prevent duplicate payment of coupons from different issuing media.

The issuing medium may further include transmitting the coupon issued by the first user terminal to the second user terminal in response to a request from the first user terminal in the coupon issue step S320. That is, the issuing medium can mediate the coupon transmission between different user terminals, and in this case, the user information of the second user terminal provided with the coupon can be transmitted to the issuer server. Furthermore, it is also possible that the first user terminal transmits the coupon directly to the second user terminal. In this case, in order to determine whether or not the coupon activation condition for the second user terminal is achieved, And transmit the user information of the terminal to the issuer server. However, according to the embodiment, it is also possible that the second user terminal provided with the coupon directly transmits its own user information.

In the activation condition determination step S330, the issuer server determines whether or not the activation condition for the issued coupon is accomplished using the user information, and transmits the condition completion signal to the coupon management server when the activation condition is satisfied . The determination as to whether or not the activation condition has been achieved and the transmission of the condition achievement signal have been described above, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

In the activation signal receiving step (S340), upon receiving the condition completion signal, the coupon management server transmits an activation signal to the issuing medium, and the user terminal can receive the activation signal from the issuing medium. According to an embodiment, the coupon management server may transmit the activation signal directly to the user terminal.

In the coupon activation step S350, the user terminal can convert the inactive PIN into the active PIN using the activation signal. In the approval request step S360, when the user terminal presents the coupon to the client terminal, The customer terminal can transmit the PIN of the coupon to the coupon management server to request approval of use. Also, in the use approval step (S370), the coupon management server confirms whether or not the received PIN is activated. If the PIN corresponds to the activation PIN, the coupon management server can transmit a use approval signal to the client terminal. The coupon activation step S350, the approval requesting step S360, and the use approval step S370 have been described above with reference to FIG. 3 and the like, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

10: issuer server 20: coupon management server
30: customer terminal 40: user terminal
S110: Coupon transmission step S120: Activation condition determination step
S130: Activation signal transmission step S140: Coupon activation step
S150: Approval request step S160: Use approval step
S210: coupon transmission step S220: coupon activation step
S230: Approval approval step

Claims (37)

1. A coupon service system including an issuer server, a coupon management server and a customer terminal,
An issuer server for requesting issuance of a coupon including an activation condition to the coupon management server and for determining whether the activation condition of the coupon is achieved;
And transmits an activation signal for converting the inactive PIN to an active PIN to the user terminal when the activation condition is confirmed, A coupon management server for transmitting the coupon to the terminal; And
And a customer terminal for transmitting a PIN of a coupon presented by the user terminal to the coupon management server and requesting approval of use of the coupon.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the issuer server
And coupon information including the coupon sending destination, coupon type, coupon validity period, and activation condition to the coupon management server.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the issuer server
And transmits a condition completion signal to the coupon management server if the credit card usage amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the publisher server
And extracts a coupon sending person to receive the coupon from the customer information previously stored in the issuer server or provided through communication from another server.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the publisher server
A coupon service system for extracting a coupon sending destination by using customer information of a customer who has agreed to receive an advertisement.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the coupon management server
Generates a coupon including a bar code or a QR code corresponding to the inactive PIN, and transmits the coupon to the user terminal.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the coupon management server
Wherein a coupon including a plurality of activation conditions is generated and the content of the activated coupon is varied according to the number of achievement of the activation condition.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the coupon management server
Wherein the coupon service terminal confirms whether the PIN corresponds to the active PIN when the customer terminal transmits the coupon PIN and transmits a use approval signal to the customer terminal when the coupon is valid.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the coupon management server
Wherein the coupon service system records the coupon transmission availability, activation status, and usage approval status for each user terminal, and generates statistics on the coupon.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the coupon management server
And calculating the achievement ratio of the activation condition using the information received from the issuer server, and transmitting the achievement ratio to the user terminal.
A coupon transmitting step of generating a coupon containing an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) at the request of the issuer server and transmitting the coupon to the user terminal;
An activating condition discriminating step of discriminating whether or not the issuer server achieves an activation condition for the coupon and transmitting a condition attaining signal to the coupon management server when the activating condition is achieved;
An activation signal transmission step in which the coupon management server transmits an activation signal to the user terminal when receiving the condition completion signal; And
Wherein the user terminal uses the activation signal to convert the inactive PIN into an active PIN.
12. The method of claim 11,
The issuer server extracts a coupon sendee to be issued the coupon using the customer information previously stored in the issuer server or provided through communication from another server and transmits the coupon to the coupon management server via the coupon Further comprising: a coupon request step of requesting generation of the coupon.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the coupon request step
A coupon service method for extracting a coupon sending destination by using customer information of a customer who has agreed to receive an advertisement.
12. The method of claim 11,
An approval request step of, when the user terminal presents the coupon to the coupon management terminal, transmitting the PIN of the coupon to the coupon management server and requesting approval of use; And
Further comprising a use approval step of confirming whether the coupon management server activates the received PIN and transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal when the PIN corresponds to the active PIN.
A coupon transmitting step of the coupon management server generating a coupon at the request of the issuer server and transmitting the coupon to the user terminal;
A coupon activation step of transmitting, to the coupon management server, an activation signal for activating the coupon to the user terminal when the coupon management server receives from the issuer server an activation condition for the coupon; And
And a use approval step of confirming whether the coupon is activated or not and transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal when the coupon management server receives the use approval request from the coupon terminal from the coupon management server, Service method.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the coupon transfer step
A coupon generation step of causing the coupon management server to generate the coupon using the coupon sending destination, coupon type, coupon validity period, and activation condition received from the issuer server; And
And a coupon management server for transmitting the coupon by matching the coupon to the user terminal corresponding to the coupon sending destination and recording whether or not coupon is transmitted to each user terminal. How coupons are served.
17. The method of claim 16,
And generating a coupon by including a PIN (Personal Identification Number) in an inactive state in the coupon.
18. The method of claim 17,
Generating a coupon including a bar code or a QR code (Quick Response code) corresponding to the inactive PIN, and transmitting the coupon to the user terminal.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the activating the coupon comprises:
And if the coupon includes a plurality of activation conditions, the content of the activated coupon is different according to the number of achievement of the activation condition.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the activating the coupon comprises:
And changing an inactive PIN included in the coupon to an activated PIN using the activation signal.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the activating the coupon comprises:
And changing the PIN to the activated PIN, the coupon management server records activation of the coupon.
21. The method of claim 20,
When the coupon management server transmits the PIN of the coupon, whether the coupon management server corresponds to the PIN of the activated state or not, How to offer coupons on the management server.
16. The method according to claim 15,
And when the use approval signal is transmitted, the coupon management server records usage of the coupon.
16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the coupon management server further comprises an activation condition notification step of transmitting the achievement ratio of the activation condition to the user terminal.
16. The method of claim 15,
Further comprising a management step in which the coupon management server generates data on the number of coupons to be transmitted, whether the coupons are transmitted, whether the coupons are activated, and whether the coupons are used or not, and provides statistics.
A coupon transmitting step of the coupon management server generating a coupon at the request of the issuer server and transmitting the coupon to the user terminal;
When the coupon management server receives from the issuer server the achievement of the activation condition for the coupon, the coupon management server records the accomplishment of the activation condition of the coupon in a predetermined table table; And
The coupon management server confirms the table table and transmits a use approval signal to the customer terminal when the activation condition is recorded in the table table, when the coupon management server receives the use approval request from the customer terminal A method of servicing a coupon in an inclusive coupon management server.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein the activating the coupon comprises:
And transmitting a notification message notifying activation of the coupon to the user terminal when the activation condition is received.
A coupon management step of generating a coupon containing an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) according to a request from the issuer server and supplying the generated coupon to a predetermined issuing medium;
Issuing a coupon to a user terminal connected to the issuing medium by the issuing medium, and providing the issuer server with the user information of the user terminal having the coupon issued by the issuing medium or the user terminal;
Determining whether an activation condition for the issued coupon is achieved using the user information, and transmitting a condition completion signal to the coupon management server when the activation condition is satisfied;
An activation signal receiving step of receiving the activation signal from the issuance medium when the coupon management server receives the condition fulfillment signal and transmits an activation signal to the issuance medium; And
And activating a coupon by the user terminal using the activation signal to convert the inactive PIN into an active PIN.
29. The method of claim 28,
An approval request step of, when the user terminal presents the coupon to the coupon management terminal, transmitting the PIN of the coupon to the coupon management server and requesting approval of use; And
Further comprising a use approval step of confirming whether the coupon management server activates the received PIN and transmitting a use approval signal to the customer terminal when the PIN corresponds to the active PIN.
29. The system of claim 28, wherein the issuing medium
A method of providing coupons for operating at least one of a web page, a messenger program, and a mobile application.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the coupon supply step
And the coupon management server supplies different types of coupons according to the type of the issuance medium.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein the issuing of the coupon comprises:
Wherein the issuing medium checks the user terminal that has issued the coupon to prevent duplicate payment of the coupon.
33. The method of claim 32, wherein the coupon issuing step
A coupon service method in which a plurality of issuing media share user information of a user terminal that has been issued coupons, thereby preventing the user terminals from receiving duplicate coupons from different issuing media.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein the issuing of the coupon comprises:
And the issuing medium further comprises transmitting the coupon issued by the first user terminal to the second user terminal in response to a request from the first user terminal.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein the issuing of the coupon comprises:
Further comprising the step of the first user terminal transmitting the coupon to the second user terminal and the first user terminal transmitting the user information of the second user terminal to the issuer server.
The issuing medium receiving a coupon containing an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) from the coupon management server;
Issuing the coupon to the user terminal connected to the issuing medium and providing the user information of the user terminal to the issuer server for determining whether the activation condition for the coupon is satisfied; And
And transmitting the activation signal to the user terminal when the issuing medium receives the activation signal for the coupon.
A coupon service system comprising a issuer server, a coupon management server, an issuing medium, and a customer terminal,
An issuer server for requesting a coupon management server to generate a coupon including an activation condition and determining whether the activation condition of the coupon is achieved;
A coupon that includes an inactive PIN (Personal Identification Number) in response to a request from the issuer server, and transmits an activation signal for converting the inactive PIN to an active PIN to the user terminal when the activation condition is confirmed Management server;
An issuing medium for issuing the coupon received from the coupon management server to the user terminal; And
And a customer terminal for transmitting an activation PIN of a coupon presented by the user terminal to the coupon management server to request approval of use of the coupon.

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